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Witch Doctor may be the world’s mystic protector and the wielder of Excalibur, but he’s also a man. A man with needs. A man with sexual needs. After a rough day dealing with demonic larvae, he meets a very sensual young woman in a bar. One thing leads to another and voilà, Doctor Vincent Morrow wakes up the next morning stark naked, heavily drunk and without a single clue of what happened in his bedroom… besides the sexy lingerie the mysterious woman has left behind.

In the real world, unprotected sex can lead to sexually transmitted diseases, but in Witch Doctor’s world, unprotected sex with a supernatural creature can lead to, well, to a life extinction event. Quickly, Morrow establishes that he has been infected by a strigoi. Penny Dreadful, the doctor’s anesthetist, engages in a brutal battle with the strigoi and eventually subdues the creature. But who was behind this attack? And how can the good doctor find a cure before it’s too late?

The morning after / la mañana siguiente

Writer Brandon Seifert has again hit a homerun with the initial chapter of this new miniseries. Every work of fiction must have a set of logical rules to preserve consistency, this is somewhat easier when we ground our stories in real life, but Brandon does something else, something more difficult, and he succeeds in creating for us a world that although may not exist feels just as real as the streets we see outside our window.

But without Lukas Ketner this original universe couldn’t exist. Lukas takes the page and turns it into that metaphorical window that actually lets us see what is going on in the doctor’s world. And if we pay enough attention we will find a myriad of details that help make this world just as real and solid as ours (if not more). For instance, the bar is decorated with some really nice vintage lamps and also a phrenology skull (a pseudo-science from the 19th century). Morrow’s hotel room is also a good combination between an average single man’s house with the ambiance of old hotels that are the perfect locale for certain horror movies.

Penny Dreadful

But the thing that really made me feel as if insects were crawling all over my skin is the page in which we see the sensual unknown woman licking Morrow’s neck, and then we see the tongue being transformed into the horrifying organ of the strigoi. The last time something made me feel like this was in Stephen Bissette’s masterfully depiction of Louisiana’s insects in “Love and Death” (Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing # 29).______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________